The place of therapy: between lab and field in the psychoanalytic office

Crăciun, Mariana

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12977

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“…The payment for psychoanalytic treatment that I analyze in this article has some of the features of health care in terms of being a peculiar service, but has its particularities that distinguishes it from doctors, hospitals, hospices, or fertility clinics (Brown, 2021 ; Craciun, 2016 , 2019 ; Livne, 2019 ; Reich, 2016 ). Among these, the most salient are the comparatively personalized character of payment (with low mediation and relatively blurry calculation), and the (flexible) theoretical apparatus that psychoanalysts share, which provide several meanings for the patient’s payment.…”

Section: Morality Payments and Valuationmentioning

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This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis

Fridman

2021

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This article examines valuation and payment practices of psychoanalysts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Psychoanalysts do not use explicit sliding scales but rather reach an agreement about fees in conversation with the patient. This negotiation is conducted with some principles of gift-giving, where parties try to give more, rather than through competitive bargaining (an inverted bazaar). Drawing on the sociology of money, morals and markets, and valuation studies literatures, I distinguish four factors to explain this: 1) Some formally produced prices as well as market mechanisms shape benchmarks for fees, but the peculiar service psychologists offer (which makes quality judgments hard), the way patients and therapists are matched, and the lack of public information about prices allow for high flexibility in price-setting; these are structural factors that remain unsaid in the conversation on fees. 2) A professional narrative that highlights a responsibility towards patients that should not be contaminated by economic interest. 3) Psychoanalysts’ elaborations on the meanings of the payment, which should reflect the uniqueness of each patient and the bond analyst-patient and symbolize the patient’s commitment to treatment, involving a cost and a loss beyond the economic. 4) The prevalence of cash, face-to-face payment without intermediaries, which helps desacralize the analyst and disentangle the session from the rest of the economic life of the analyst, but impedes evading moralization of the transaction. Payments in psychoanalysis are delicate arrangements, and analysts often stress about valuation and payments. They have to be careful to ensure this flexibility results in morally acceptable transactions.

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Section: Morality Payments and Valuationmentioning

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This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis

Fridman

2021

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“…Yet, despite the wealth of science and technology studies literature on places of knowledge production, and recent attention to place, architecture and materiality among medical sociologists (e.g. Bell , Brownlie and Spandler , Craciun , Buse et al . , Ivanova et al .…”

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The infidelity of place: medical simulation labs and disjunctures in pedagogical places

Bartram

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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Simulations are increasingly integral to scientific and social knowledge making. While a number of social scientists study simulation, extant literature is yet to fully investigate how simulated settings are different from and similar to other scientific places. I draw on scholarship on the importance of place within knowledge making in order to study two medical simulation labs and ask what role place plays in these simulated settings. I show that effective pedagogical simulations ironically depend upon departures from 'real' places of medical and scientific knowledge production. I highlight the importance of divergences in the sequence of events and scripts, in the behaviour of the manikins and actors, and in the materiality and arrangement of the settings. For medical and nursing students, it is the very disjunctures between the simulated environment and the hospital environmentthe infidelity of placethat allows learning to happen. Overall, this article offers an exploratory investigation into the mechanisms at work in pedagogical places of medical simulation and qualifies understandings of the relationship between place and knowledge production.

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Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care

Forner

2022

Cult Med Psychiatry

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The place of therapy: between lab and field in the psychoanalytic office

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis

This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis

The infidelity of place: medical simulation labs and disjunctures in pedagogical places

Virtual Reality Therapy in France: A Therapeutic Innovation Between Technology and Care

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